Shirish Nilekar

Shirish Nilekar currently serves as Vice President of Digital Product Strategy & Innovation at Otis Elevator Co., a role assumed in 2023. Previously, Shirish held the position of Vice President of Product at Constrafor, where significant improvements to the platform were made, laying the groundwork for the company's flagship Fintech product and building a high-performance product team. Earlier experience includes serving as Director of Product Management at Otis Elevator Co., where Shirish co-founded the Digital Accelerator group and launched innovative solutions such as the "Otis Integrated Dispatch" API. Additional roles include Director of Product Management at Vidyo and Opengear, co-founder at Tripeese, and varied engineering and management positions in both India and the USA. Shirish has earned master's degrees in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management and in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, along with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University.